A Dictionary of Maqiao (Paperback)

From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality-the story of a young man "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a series of vignettes disguised as entries, "A Dictionary of Maqiao" is a novel of bold invention-and a fascinating, comic, deeply moving journey through the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution.
Entries trace the wisdom and absurdities of Maqiao: the petty squabbles, family grudges, poverty, infidelities, fantasies, lunatics, bullies, superstitions, and especially the odd logic in their use of language-where the word for "beginning" is the same as the word for "end"; "little big brother" means older sister; to be "scientific" means to be lazy; and "streetsickness" is a disease afflicting villagers visiting urban areas. Filled with colorful characters-from a weeping ox to a man so poisonous that snakes die when they bite him-"A Dictionary of Maqiao" is both an important work of Chinese literature and a probing inquiry into the extraordinary power of language.

General

Imprint:	Anchor Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	September 2005
Authors:	Han Shaogong
Translators:	Julia Lovell
Dimensions:	210 x 134 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	394
ISBN-13:	978-0-385-33935-3
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Chinese
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-385-33935-6
Barcode:	9780385339353

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